Posts Tagged ‘The Road Theatre Company’
SLEEPING GIANT
Saturday, January 25th, 2025
All hell breaks loose when wedding-proposal fireworks unleash monstrous horrors on a lakeside community in Sleeping Giant, the latest dark comedy treat from macabre master Steve Yockey.
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THE CIVIL TWILIGHT
Monday, November 4th, 2024
Two strangers seeking refuge in a dingy motel room reveal their deepest, darkest secrets to riveting effect in The Civil Twilight, Shem Bitterman’s lollapalooza of a two-hander now getting a brilliantly acted World Premiere at the Broadwater Studio Theatre.
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ROBBIN, FROM THE HOOD
Sunday, October 27th, 2024
Robbin, from the Hood, goes head-to-head with a multibillion-dollar conglomerate in Marlow Wyatt’s invigorating follow-up to 2023’s Best-of-the-Year Scenie-winning SHE.
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HIGH MAINTENANCE
Tuesday, April 16th, 2024Christian Prentice dazzles as a state-of-the-art robot about to star as Torvald in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House opposite TV diva Ivy Khan’s Nora in Peter Ritt’s High Maintenance, an initially captivating Road Theatre World Premiere that fails to live up to expectations in its romance-derailing, credibility-straining final scenes.
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MERCURY
Saturday, January 13th, 2024
No one does dark and twisted with quite the devilish glee of playwright Steve Yockey, proof positive of which can be seen in Mercury, a gloriously grizzly Road Theatre Company West Coast Premiere.
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BISEXUAL SADNESS
Sunday, October 29th, 2023
A bi woman about to marry the man of her dreams fears losing the community of gay women who welcomed her during her lengthy relationship with a lesbian in India Kotis’s Bisexual Sadness, a laughter-and-drama-packed Road Theatre World Premiere guaranteed to get you thinking and talking about sexuality and gender in new and unexpected ways.
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SCINTILLA
Monday, April 24th, 2023
A grown son’s visit to his semi-estranged mother’s woodsy abode soon turns into a matter of life or death as a raging forest fire advances in their direction in Scintilla, Alessandro Camon’s gripping, suspenseful gut-puncher of a Road Theatre Company World Premiere.
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ACCORDING TO THE CHORUS
Saturday, October 22nd, 2022
Backstage comedies pretty much have me at hello. No wonder then that I’ve fallen head over Capezios for According To The Chorus, Arlene Hutton’s captivating journey back in time to Broadway circa 1984, the latest World Premiere delight from North Hollywood’s Road Theatre Company.
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